Tag Archives: consumer spending

Consumers Financial Health Improving

Popular Economics Weekly   Consumers’ financial health continues to improve. They are managing to both save and spend more, in spite of worries about both federal and state deficits. In fact, deficits don’t seem to matter to consumers, at least, … Continue reading

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Why the Housing Bubble?

The Mortgage Corner Historical hindsight is always 20-20, but why didn’t economists and the Fed act sooner to deflate the housing bubble? By waiting until 2006 to tighten credit, the Federal Reserve allowed overbuilding of the housing sector that resulted … Continue reading

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